The folks at Thrillist recently published their picks for "The Worst Damned Freeways in America," and it's no surprise that I-70 near Denver made the cut — and landed close to the top of its roster of twelve selections.

Does it deserve this ranking? Should it be lower, or perhaps even higher? Check out the dozen choices below, featuring photos and excerpts from Thrillist text. To see the complete post, with plenty of additional information and a description of the freeway-rating methodology, click here.

Worst aspect: While the road conditions are better than average, you've got a pretty decent chance of dying on a Rhode Island interstate. But the real problem is the wildly inconsistent traffic patterns: every morning you've gotta get up 30 minutes early just to go sit in traffic... except on the days when, inexplicably, there is none, and you could've pressed that blessed snooze button a few more times.

Worst aspect: Calling the Parkway a parking lot isn't even a joke. When you take into account how slow the traffic can be and how much it fluctuates, Pittsburgh clocks in at fifth worst in the country. And then there's this: the Greenfield Bridge has been crumbling for decades, falling onto the Parkway. The solution was to build another bridge — underneath it — purely to catch the debris. If you believe in Christmas miracles, it's scheduled for implosion starting December 26th, 2015.

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Worst aspect: All you need to know about the horrors of I-35 as it goes through Austin is this: it’s so bad that America’s fastest highway — the SH 130 toll road, with speed limits up to 85mph — was built purely so people could fly past Austin’s traffic nightmare as quickly as possible.

Worst aspect: Fort Worth has traffic issues that will make grown men cry, but between the LBJ, Stemmons, and Central Expressway, Dallas is losing nearly $1 billion a year just from people sitting around doing nothing.